Chatoyant Pounamu Piwakawaka – Fantail
This stone has some cool parallel grain running through it. It is designed as a Piwakawaka/Fantail. (The tail part).
A piwakawaka will always being flittering around people who are walking in the bush. If feels like they are there looking after you or protecting you so this piece if for someone like that. This piece was made for and given to a special woman in my life.
It is a styalised, symbolic representation of the piwakawaka tail feathers when they are spread.
In reality the little piwakawaka is just hungry and is swooping around the people walking, eating all the little insects that have flown up from the leaf litter that has been disturbed.
When Jade is formed deep underground with heat and pressure the mineral strands making it are felted like wool can be, all mixed together in lots of different directions. Sometimes when these microscopic strands are aligned parallel that kind of shimmer. This stone has some of this effect, it is called chatoyancy
This is a really good example of a piece of Jade with a lot of obvious chatoyancy. Here is another example of chatoyant Jade.
